Ok, so now all teams with bad ownership situations are moving to the Great White North? How is this even practical? With the Thrashers it became increasingly apparent over time that something along the lines of a move to Canada was going to happen, as hard as it was to accept. Attendance was dropping, ownership was bumbling everything it touched. Once Phoenix went off the table for a year, it was as good as done.

Now, the Coyotes are still unstable because the chances the League is going to be able to wrangle $25 million out of the City of Glendale to cover losses on an annual basis isn’t going to happen – and fans aren’t exactly excited to come out for a team that they don’t know will be there next season. If there is a candidate for relocation – and I hope that there isn’t another one; two in two years isn’t indicitave of a well run League – it’s probably the Coyotes.

The Blues haven’t made much ground on the sale of their team, and because Bettman told Balsillie that he could get his team, well of course the Blues are well on their way to Canada. Wouldn’t be the first time there’s been a rumor about this – Saskatoon Blues, anyone? And the Salomons? Come on – the team literally had three people working for them at one point. If the NHL didn’t want to lose a market like St. Louis in the early 1980s, why would they now? And if the Blues can survive Nancy and Bill Laurie, you’d think they could survive this hiccup.

Sure, there are state of the art arenas in Quebec City and Hamilton, but Quebec’s hit a hiccup and Hamilton’s smack dab in both the Toronto Maple Leafs’ and Buffalo Sabres’ territory.

But no, conjecture! A tweet without even a story to go with it! Balsillie! Thrashers moving! Yeah, why wouldn’t the league lose one of it’s top ten teams as far as attendance go to a market a fraction of the size? Makes sense to me.